Local privilege escalation via stale mm_struct pointer
Published Aug 10, 2026 · Updated Aug 10, 2026
Use-after-free in the AMD XDNA job scheduler in Linux allows local users to escalate privileges through the AMDXDNA_EXEC_CMD ioctl. amdxdna_cmd_submit stores current->mm in job->mm without taking a structural reference, so the scheduler worker can dereference a freed mm_struct. Exploitation requires low-privileged access to an AMD NPU accel render node and control of the submission race; consequences include kernel-memory disclosure, controlled writes, privilege escalation, or a panic.
Summary
What happened
Use-after-free in the AMD XDNA job scheduler in Linux allows local users to escalate privileges through the AMDXDNA_EXEC_CMD ioctl. amdxdna_cmd_submit stores current->mm in job->mm without taking a structural reference, so the scheduler worker can dereference a freed mm_struct. Exploitation requires low-privileged access to an AMD NPU accel render node and control of the submission race; consequences include kernel-memory disclosure, controlled writes, privilege escalation, or a panic.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-68380
- Published
- Aug 10, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 10, 2026
- Vendor
- The Linux Kernel Organization
- Product
- Linux
- Classifications
- CWE-825, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
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- Aug 10, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 10, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=6.14
- Affected versionversion=aac243092b707bb3018e951d470cc1a9bcbaba6c <6875ee2bef48f5d9f045d81a8a4d68893f768a8a
- Affected versionversion=aac243092b707bb3018e951d470cc1a9bcbaba6c <e8fadbffc19a233d1eedebfb8df0f522d1388280
- Affected versionversion=aac243092b707bb3018e951d470cc1a9bcbaba6c <faebb7ba1ac65fa5810b640df02ce04e509fdc11
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